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'The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.'
-Robert Frost

🎨James Christopher Hill

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2022-11-30

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

🎨 Source: Daydreams and Moonbeams


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2022-11-29

'Black and monotonously sounding is the midnight and solitude of the rain.'
-Edward Thomas

🎨Catia Chien

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2022-11-29

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

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2022-11-27

'But where in the world is the path for me
Except the river that runs to the sea!'
-Zoe Akins

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2022-11-27

'The sun, that fills with light each glistening fold,
Shall set, and leave thee dark and cold'
-William Cullen Bryant

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)

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2022-11-23

For Book Recommendations on Chinese Legends around Chang'e, Hou Yi & the Jade Rabbit:
's "An Arrow to the Moon"
's "Daughter of the Moon Goddess"
's "Burning Roses"
G. Z. Schmidt's "The Dreamweavers"

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2022-11-21

Darklings!

A new week beckons, lights are still on, blue bird is still... alive and should open your lore & books week tomorrow, while flutters through the November gloom, quotes sombrely (for too) and RTs your dark gems!

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2022-11-21

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
(Joseph Conrad)

🎨 Thomas Moran

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2022-11-18

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music" (C.S. Lewis)

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

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2022-11-17

Darklings!

Time to haunt the nightly autumnal woods - we'll meet you tomorrow for another bout a nature for

🎨 13_con

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2022-11-13

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature”

~ Jane Austen


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2022-11-10

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night" (Milton)

🎨 Henry Fuseli

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2022-11-08

"This forest is a dangerous place," said the birds in unison.
"Now that I'm here, it most certainly is."

Quote and Art by Asya Yordanova/Tumblr

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2022-11-08

“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear…”

~ Walt Whitman

🎨 The Fishercat by spocha


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2022-11-08

"And cried, homesick for his fair native lake:
"Rain, when will you fall? Thunder, when will you roll?"
I see that hapless bird, that strange and fatal myth"
(Baudelaire)

🎨 Jan Asselijn (c 1650)

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2022-11-04

Join us today as we hang out with our Wynderful pals at
and and of course, as usual, will happily retweet your bookish posts📚✨ https://t.co/umcSnszPid

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2022-11-02

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

—W. Somerset Maugham
Illustration by Chris Dunn

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2022-11-02

"Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums" (Maurice Maeterlinck)

🎨 Pauhami

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2022-11-02

"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

Shakespeare's "Tempest" premiered 1611

🎨 Dulac

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2022-11-01